Conference Information

We are pleased to announce the Workshop on Copulas which will be takingplace at the University of Bologna, Department of Modern Languages,Literatures and Cultures (LILEC) on March 13, 2014.

The aim of this workshop is to gather together scholars and studentsstudying copulas from all domains of linguistic analysis. We have adopted abroad definition of copula including attributive, ascriptive,identificational, equative, locative and existential sentences. Discussionsmay address one or more of the following subjects:

- Copular taxonomy - The semantics of copular items- Dropping, omission deletion or absence of copulas- Copula variation due to semantic and/or syntactic factors- Copulas in pidgin and creoles- Emergence of copular items - the copula cycle- Copulas in first and second language acquisition- Micro-variation: comparative studies of the copular systems intypologically related languages, languages pertaining to the same dialectcluster, or even in different registers of the same language- Multi-copula systems